Creating a 10-Year National Sleep Health Strategy - 2024 Pre-Budget Submission

On the back of the launch of the policy evidence review, Sleep: A core pillar of health and wellbeing, the Sleep Health Foundation, alongside the ASA, submitted a proposal to the Department of Health and Aged Care in January 2024 as a pre-budget submission. The main ‘ask’ in this joint submission was for the establishment of a 10-year National Sleep Health Strategy in Australia. We have recommended this so we can improve population sleep health in a coordinated fashion and so we can better address the increasing prevalence of poor sleep and associated negative health outcomes, and provide leadership and policy commitment necessary to improve population sleep health progressively over the coming decade.